“Muh Soviet in a supermarket” story in 2023? My comment was also about McDonald’s in the USSR, so they’re feeling super exceptionalist over fast food slop.

Link You can’t see this through Hexbear because they were banned for racism, war crime apologism and ableism chefs-kiss

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    Someone posted a bunch of pictures from the Soviet Union a while back. Their grocery stores looked just like grocery stores anywhere, except the Soviets apparently didn’t give a fuck about facing (lining goods up to the front of the shelf) (they weren’t wrong).

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    Meanwhile on Sunday I went to my local grocery store and they had no carts. They said they removed carts because people kept stealing by filling them up and walking out the door. I wandered around a few minutes and wasn’t able to find much on my list because they were out of what I needed. And then I left without getting anything and ate out instead.

    Sounds like capitalism grocery store isn’t so good after all

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    USSR: Supermarket items are a little basic, the interiors aren’t too ritzy, etc. but everyone is well fed and there wasn’t a horrifying system of exploitation that was needed to put food on the shelves. This is literally 1984.

    ‘Murica: one thousand flavors of sliced white bread brought to you by millions of suffering workers, plus they painted the interior green so it’s basically a luxury hotel. Behold, freedom and democracy!

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    Has anyone noticed a huge uptick in libs saying the phrase “historical revisionism” in the last couple years? What drove this? Ukraine?

    EDIT: Even google trends sees it

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      It’s libs getting exposed to actual history for a change when mainstream narrations are getting a bit too cognitive dissonant, and they are violently refusing to acknowledge it instead of just ignoring like previously.

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    In the unlikely chance this story is true then the reality is that yeah, someone coming from the Eastern bloc might initially be overwhelmed to tears by the illusion of choice provided by western supermarkets. Thats all thats going on though. Just being overwhelmed by the flashiness of it. That doesnt prove its a good thing or that capitalism is better.

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      There was also a ton of propaganda spread to Eastern Bloc countries by the US and its allies, and there were obviously people who believed everything was better in the West. Parenti mentions this in Blackshirts and Reds as one of the biggest problems for AES countries.

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        The GDR imported some food items from Vietnam and other fraternity socialist countries. Those items were often not so well stocked in the FRG. You can ask around in urban centers after gentrification today would they rather have bananas only rarely but a flat that is theirs or bananas but no flat?